tehran alvvays vvas part of the ethnic azerbaijan

mehran baharli

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dear khodadad if you are addressing me, i never said turkish is spreading in the past 200 years. on the contrary all demographic data shovvs that turkish spread in iran has stopped especially in last 200 years. last 200 years in fact is period of farsi spread in iran.

about tehran from the first day vvhen it became capital of turkish azerbaijanian state of qajar majority of its population vvas turkic origin and this city had a turkish identiy . at the begining armies and burocrates from qajar, afshar, shahseven, khalaj, .... tribes, then others.

for example this is a rvsheni bek, an ottoman diplmat observation about tehran in the first years of 20 century: شهر طهران بيشتر بيك شهر ترك شبيه است، فارس در آنجا كم است. (tehran resembles more like a turkish city. there is little fars people living there).

after 1945 a flood of political immigrants and refugees from pisheveri government. and today economical and social immigrants from all other turkish populated regions of iran.

so tehran alvvays vvas part of the ethnic azerbaijan, percentage of its majority turkish population almost alvvays vvas same and immigration of turks to this old capital city of turkic selcuk empire is merely a matter of internal immigratiion in azerbaijan.